Post by @Samskara@sh.itjust.works

@Samskara@sh.itjust.works

2026-04-23 11:15 UTC

See, just as I said. You draw the line at attacks. Would you define racism as being attacks against racialized people? Antisemitism starts with the rumor about the Jews. That’s what legitimizes the marginalization and violence. This is the difference how leftists typically deal with accusations of bigotry: Black person: „That’s racist!“ Leftist: „Of course your lived experience matters!“ Jewish person: „That’s antisemitic!“ Leftist: „ANTIZIONISM ISNT ANTISEMITISM! SHUT UP ZIONAZI! DEATH TO ISRAHELL!“ > antigermans that are of the opinion that any criticism of the actions of the Israeli government is antisemitism because it is a Jewish ethnostate That’s often repeated but incorrect. Criticism is fine. Israelis, Zionists, and antigermans criticize Israel all the time. It crosses the line when demanding Israel‘s violent destruction and with it the death of millions of Jews for example. Holding Israel to a different standard than all other countries can be an expression of antisemitism as well. Denying only the Jewish people the right to self determination is common for example. Repeating antisemitic conspiracy theories and tropes doesn’t stop being antisemitic, if the word Jews are swapped for Zionists. That’s what neo-Nazis have been doing for decades. Today the anti Israel left uncritically uses the exact same phrases and terms they have established. Holocaust inversion has also become disturbingly widespread.

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@TanteRegenbogen@feddit.org 2026-04-23 20:28

If I was you, I would have shut up a long time ago. You spread anti-German BS everywhere and take away any credibility to rational positions against antisemitism. You spread pro-Israel apologia and sometimes even non-Israel related right wing crap on Feddit. You make the rest of us look bad when you try to call out antisemitic positions among antizionists and you never have any real criticism of Israel to offer.

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@Micromot@piefed.social 2026-04-23 12:05

I meant verbal attacks as well, any prejudice based on their Jewishness is also antisemitism. If antizionism is antisemitism depends completely on the argument at hand. If someone says that Zionists want control over the whole world and the money that is antisemitic. If someone rightfully condemns the genocide and attacks done by the IDF or the state of Israel that isn't antisemitism. The violent expansion of the state Israel is just as bad as any other country doing the same. No country has the right to genocide or violently take or colonize another region

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@musicjunkie@lemmy.world 2026-04-23 11:42

Idk if you are commenting in bad faith but there’s a long history in the west (I can only speak to America specifically) of falsely using antisemitism as a shield for any criticism of Jewish culture or Israel’ actions So your analogy of people accepting a black person saying something is racist but not accepting the same statement from a Jew is totally glossing over the actual history of what’s gone on in the west at the hands of ecoterrorist orgs like the ADL using this as an excuse to manipulate control and shape the narrative surrounding modern Israel The reason people in 2026 don’t really just bend the knee the instant the word “antisemitism” is used is because the word has been so overused that it lost all sense of meaning colloquially (similar to how liberals have used the term “Nazi” so often that people are proudly blasting HH by Ye and find it funny) Either you don’t know the history of Jews in America or you do know and you are doing exactly what I’m describing which is falsely using antisemitism as a shield to protect Israel or Jews from valid criticism

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